450Mhz is pretty slow. My 2.4Gz Xeon with 1G of RAM running RH9 and Spam Assassin version 2.63 takes about 30-40 seconds per message. I have some of the external stuff turned on.
A friend had a similar system to yours which he just upgraded last week to a 3Ghz Xeon because SA, and other things, were just taking too long.
Steven Stern wrote:
According to the log, it's taking SA 3 seconds to process a 6K message from this list. All external stuff for SA is disabled. Is this normal?
450MHz Pentium 3, 576MB memory, lightly loaded
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